For the second time Steve has featured on the cover of the leading accordion magazine ACCORDION WORLD which came out on the 1st March ’09 .(issue 02/09). He was last given this honour in May 2002. Following a huge success with his appearance at the Avranches Accordeon Festival starring Andre Verchuren and the elite of the French accordion players including Jean Dauvin, World & European Champion and Jean-Marc Torchy, he was also featured on the news on the leading accordion web-site www.accordions.com (w/c 3rd April) Following his performance at the festival he was dubbed the English Verchuren by those present (Full report below)